Results in BLC Posts
Posted by Orlando Garcia on September 29, 2003
What is Language as Knowledge? by Shirley Brice Heath, Professor Emerita, Department of English and Dramatic Literature, and of Linguistics, Stanford University Monday, September 29, 2003 370 Dwinelle Hall, 4-6 p.m.
Posted by Orlando Garcia on December 6, 2002
Instructional Development Research Projects Interactional Patterns in Web-based Writing of Foreign Language Students Paige Daniel, Education This study raises questions about the potential of the electronic medium to promote cross-cultural communicative competence. Students carry different perceptions of their purposes and roles into telecollaborative language exchanges that come to bear on the ways in which…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on May 10, 2002
Instructional Development Research Projects Expanding Extensive Reading in the French 2 Curriculum David Petterson, French L2 Production and Immersion Simulation Software: The Next (Proficiency-Based) Generation David Wacks, Spanish & Portuguese The Design and Implementation of Networked-Based Activities in the German 2 Classroom: A Pilot Project Chantelle Warner, German Friday, May 10, 2002 3-5pm, 370…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on December 7, 2001
Instructional Development Research Projects Using Drama to Enhance Language Learning in Second-Year French Sarah Roberts, GSR, French Researching the Role of Performance in the Teaching of Durrenmatt’s ‘Der Besuch derr alten Dame’ in German 3 Karina Sliwinski, GSR, German Teaching Grammar and Composition to Advance Spanish Students: A Method that Works Amelia Barili, Lecturer,…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on November 2, 2001
Other-Repair in Oral Proficiency Interview: A Conversation-Analytic Perspective by Gabriele Kasper, University of Hawaii at Manoa Friday, November 2, 2001
Posted by Orlando Garcia on May 4, 2001
Instructional Development Research Projects Performance & Placement: Designing a Plan for Testing in the Undergraduate Russian Program Lisa Little, Lecturer, Slavic Languages and Literatures This project assesses the role of heritage language instruction among the foreign language departments in the UC system. It asks the broader question of how “heritage language” is defined and presents…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on April 9, 2001
Effects of Instruction in Second Language Acquisition by Catherine Doughty, University of Hawaii at Manoa This talk will present an up-to-date survey of the recent explosion of empirical research on the effects of instruction on second language acquisition. The findings will be discussed in terms of L2 learning rate, sequences, processes, and ultimate attainment. We…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on March 21, 2001
Changing Relationships Between Context and Communication from Pre-Language to Post-Language by Marth C. Pennington, Powdrill Professor English Language Acquisition, University of Luton, England A review of the changing contexts of communication in relation to the development in human history of spoken and written language, looking at the trends in oracy and literacy including the impact…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on February 23, 2001
Critical Applied Linguistics as Problematizing Practice by Alastair Pennycook, Professor of Language in Education, Faculty of EducationUniversity of Technology, Sydney, Australia This seminar will discuss significant themes in critical applied linguistics, providing an overview of this emergent approach to issues in language policy and planning, translation and interpreting, language education, discourse analysis, literacy, language in…
Posted by Orlando Garcia on November 17, 2000
Comprehensible Input: Still a Good Idea by Stephen Krashen, Professor, Division of Learning and Instruction Rossier School of Education, University of Southern California The Input (or Comprehension) Hypothesis claims that we acquire language and develop literacy in only one way: When we understand messages. There is overwhelming evidence that this hypothesis is correct. It successfully…